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  • You better be reading Better Off Red. Cincinnati Reds blog that covers everything from pre-game, post-game, to organizing All-Star voting lunches, to everything Redlegs big...

  • Rob Neyer gives us his ‘Hidden All-Stars’ “Reds: Arthur Rhodes. Yes, another reliever. So sue us. If Tim Wakefield can get an All-Star nod (last...

  • Learning the bats of the great ones (plus Shawn Green): Pretty sweet site to waste some time during the work day learning about some famous...

  • Jay Bruce is improving rapidly against lefties. “His OBP sits at .345, far above his .318 career average. This shows up in his wOBA, which...

  • The 2014 Fantasy Baseball All-Star Team. “Let’s turn the clock forward four years, to the 2014 season, and dream about how things might be then...

  • Manny Ramirez is slowly descending. “A big league scout was thinking the other day about Manny Ramirez, musing over the two capacities that leave a...

  • It’s a very bad time to be named Jim Joyce. We wondered what the backlash of blowing a once in a lifetime call would be....

  • A comparison of Jason Heyward and Jeff Francoeur “Both were first-round draft picks from the Atlanta suburbs, both right fielders. Both hit home runs in...

  • An excerpt from Are We Winning? A Prayer for Steve Bartman Will Leitch has always been one of our favorite writers. The fact that he’s...

  • An Elegy for Robin Roberts “Robin Roberts has always been one of my favorite old-time players. He’s been almost an exception among retired Phillies stars—a...

  • What he Left Behind Just an awesome post for anyone who has been a baseball fan, collected memoribilia (especially baseball cards), and can relate to...

  • Braves, Heyward with another “holy shit” moment. Troy Glaus hit a 2-run home run in the 9th inning off of Ryan Madson only to be...

  • ESPN Experts make their 2010 Picks: The dolts make their annual picks for the 2010 season. Of course, you’ll see plenty of representation for the...

  • Jeff Pearlman joins us Thursday on TBSBDH: Jeff Pearlman has been our favorite sports writers for a long time. He writes for Sports Illustrated and...